Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Interpretation
Books gain their significance from the history and respect they have earned over time.
This quote emphasizes the idea that the true worth of books, similar to proverbs, comes not just from their content but from the legacy and reverence they accumulate throughout history. It suggests that the value of literature is deeply intertwined with the cultural context and the appreciation it receives over generations.
In practice
During a book club meeting, discussing the lasting impact of classic literature.
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
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